Do you show your wonders to the dead? Do those who are dead rise up and praise you? Psalm 88:10
This psalm is unusual. It lacks something that is commonly found in almost all the Psalms.
It lacks hope.
How sad the writer must have been. To feel cut off - to call darkness his closest friend - to only know God's wrath... he suffered pain that few can really understand.
I understand.
For I have been in that dark place. I have felt that my friends are repulsed by me. I have experienced the pain of feeling forgotten.
Yet even now... those feelings are becoming memories. In His amazing way, God is bringing me to life.
If I could speak to this psalmist, I would say, "Yes, God shows wonders to the dead! For while I was dean in sin, He gave me life." Each new day the darkness becomes less attractive. It is merely dark. The light is where I want to be.
Lord, there was a day - not very long ago - when the words of this psalm were my own. Can it be real? Can I really be alive? You really do love me, don't You. How wonderful You are . You have raised the dead.
I long to praise You. What an awesome God You are!